Formal Test Purposes and The Validity of Test Cases
Abstract
We give a formalization of the notion of test purpose based on (suitably restricted) Message Sequence Charts. We define the validity of test cases with respect to such a formal test purpose and provide a simple decision procedure for validity.
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